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Why luxury versions of basic tools reveal cultural displacement

I spend forty dollars on artisanal matches for my expensive candles and my great-grandmother would have thought I'd lost my mind completely.

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When necessity becomes decoration, we lose touch with the essential nature of our needs.

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